Apple doesn't want you to think too differently.

June 14, 2001 7:54 AM

Apple doesn't want you to think too differently. Steve Jobs and co. are desperately trying to dismiss the Church of Satan's right to parody or even using "Made on a Macintosh" on their webpages. Worth reading just for the awesome quotes from the Satanists.
posted by skallas (22 comments total)

"corporate" = "bland, MOR, don't get out of line". No matter what corporation you're talking about.
posted by jfuller at 8:13 AM on June 14, 2001

I found this quote both apt and insightful: Gilmore added spookily: "It is also amusing to us that this company uses as a corporate logo an apple with a bite taken from it, which certainly appears to be a reference to that other famous apple...."
posted by SilentSalamander at 8:21 AM on June 14, 2001

Wouldn't cozying up to Levay give Jobs the inside track on understanding the complicated mind of the real satan?
posted by machaus at 8:46 AM on June 14, 2001

Cozying up to Levay would be a pretty smelly proposition these days, considering his been dead for some time now.
posted by MrBaliHai at 8:49 AM on June 14, 2001

4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

What a rule to live by. I just ask them to leave
posted by twistedonion at 8:53 AM on June 14, 2001

You have a lair?
posted by Doug at 9:10 AM on June 14, 2001

Oh yes,
it's dark, smelly, uninviting, and just reeks of evil :-)
posted by twistedonion at 9:16 AM on June 14, 2001

"Church of Satan" fears crack me up. Anton LaVey has about as much to do with Satan as Jack van Impe or Robert Tilton has to do with Jesus.
posted by jpoulos at 9:21 AM on June 14, 2001

the satanic rules beat the pants off the ten commandments. sign me up!
posted by ggggarret at 9:21 AM on June 14, 2001

No doubt. And why do they keep having to use the term "cult" to refer to the COS? I bet they don't refer to Presbyterianism as a cult.
posted by norm at 9:27 AM on June 14, 2001

Does anyone have a copy of the spoof "Think different" ad with Hitler? This search turns up a trace, but not the image itself. Apparently there was also a video (second link).
posted by andrew cooke at 9:50 AM on June 14, 2001

Does Harry Potter have something to do with this?
posted by DiplomaticImmunity at 10:27 AM on June 14, 2001

5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.

What exactly would that signal be? I need to know... no really!
posted by willnot at 10:35 AM on June 14, 2001

"5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal."

So many avenues of levity, so little time.
posted by Pyth at 10:43 AM on June 14, 2001

Ack! Willnot apparently didn't get an important email in the middle of typing that post, giving him (her?) plenty of time to beat me to it.
posted by Pyth at 10:44 AM on June 14, 2001

Methinks they doth protest too much.
posted by dong_resin at 11:07 AM on June 14, 2001

I think willnot and Pyth just gave each other the mating signal.
posted by thirteen at 11:18 AM on June 14, 2001

Hmmmm...why does LaVey resemble Ouchy the Clown?
posted by Sal Amander at 12:27 PM on June 14, 2001

On the dot-org side of things... "Lord Egan is pleased to announce the release of his new jazz CD entitled, Dark Passion."


And apparantly Satan has his own version of VeriSign....
posted by bison at 12:55 PM on June 14, 2001

Does Harry Potter have something to do with this?

Google says that he's the Spawn of Satan
posted by fooljay at 4:43 PM on June 14, 2001

This is all well and good, but Dogwelder has got dueling Antons. Now that's what I call fun.
posted by lizardboy at 4:57 PM on June 14, 2001

"It is also amusing to us that this company uses as a corporate logo an apple with a bite taken from it, which certainly appears to be a reference to that other famous apple...."

Yeah, the Beatle's record label, talk about flagrant trademark infringement.
posted by lagado at 5:11 PM on June 14, 2001